About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere America 2013
published on 19 June 2013
7 pages
654 KB

In his presentation, John Tompson from the US Department of State focuses on international aspect of reducing HFCs. This year, the North American countries have again submitted a proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to cover the reduction of HFCs, which will be discussed at the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in June 2013. Another part of the presentation focuses on the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to reduce short-term climate pollutants that is aimed at near term actions to mitigate the climate change.

About the speaker(s)

John Thompson

 

John Thompson came to the State Department in 2000 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Diplomacy Fellow, and has worked at the State Department for 12 years. Over that time, his portfolio has covered a range of issues including transboundary air pollution, chemicals management, stratospheric ozone-layer depletion, climate change, environmental assessments, waste management, and international environmental institutions.

John has participated on or led U.S. delegations to dozens of bilateral, regional, and global meetings in these areas. He has played a leading role in negotiations and policy initiatives for the United States under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent, the Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste, the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution, as well as ongoing negotiations on a global instrument to address mercury pollution.